Diana Chabros: samskāra
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Mann Art Gallery 142 12 St W, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan S6V 3B5
Diana Chabros, "samskāra," 2021
installation, photo credit: Mann Gallery
The Mann Art Gallery is pleased to welcome Diana Chabros: samskāra.
This exhibition of paintings explores forms of energy, cycles of life and death, and authentic relationships through story as a means to understand Chabros's interdependence with the land. Known to artists, biologists, photographers, tourism operators, ranchers and other locals as ‘grasslands’, to the Lakôta as 'maka tatanka', and to the nehiyaw/Cree as 'buffalo land' or 'paskwâw mostos askiy’, Saskatchewan’s southwest and it’s natural inhabitants are celebrated for their beauty and resiliency to survive under extremely harsh weather conditions. Through accelerated human intervention, the lives of these inhabitants are compromised to the point that even the soil has become a 'species at risk.'